I want good posture....

So here's a little device that recognizes when you're slouching and buzzes to remind you NOT TO SLOUCH! It reminds me of the audio tape my parents threatened to send with me off to college. It would basically be a silent tape that I would play while I was studying and at random intervals it would have my parents yell out "hunchback!" at me....

Things I think that Robert should want

Damask.... it's no longer just for bedspreads!

Dishes

A tiny tiny projector!

Here's a micro projector that you can slip into your pocket. It's small, portable, and runs for two hours on batteries. When you take it out, it can throw up to a 60" image from 8 feet away! You can project movies and shows from your iphone/ipod (or a slideshow from your laptop/ipod). It's awesome! They are trying to integrate the technology into cell phones--the possibilities are endless! I'm wracking my brains to think of people I know in Japan.... as Engadget is reporting that it's being released there in less than a month!

After the last couple days

I think we all need one of these

If only mutually comforting squids were part of the economic bailout package for our citizens

Fiat Lux!!!!

So I'm starting to feel the effects of basically non-stop rains here in the Pacific Northwest. I don't know how people do it. There's a store that sells "living" products to old people in the mall near where I'm living. The store sells reacher prongs, walkers, electric scooters, bedpans... the like. But it also has a whole display of "light therapy" products. I walk by this store to get to my Post Office box. Today I was drawn in like moth to a flame (or, more precisely, wet anthropologist trying to get out of the rain).

we all need this!

Reading is cool... or so we tell ourselves





of course, it's because this is what I spent my childhood looking like... sans hedgehog

I'll have some coffee to go please....

What's not to love about a coffee cup made of porcelain that looks like a disposable paper coffee cup? DCI's "I am not a paper cup..." is just too much fun to pass up. I have to confess that I didn't post here then go and buy it... rather I'm drinking my tea from it as I type this review. The question is... do I need more than one?

Purely weird... and yet intellectually intriguing

Etsy currently has 51 items tagged with "fetus" and while some are clear in their politics and some are purely for expectant parents, some I'm not quite sure of

Like this one which is both snarky and not


And then there's just a slew of interesting and ambiguous art pieces which make me wonder if I, with my fetus art collection is not running out and buying them, who is? I may snag the blackberrying fetus to use in my lecture about constructed social lives for fetuses.

Kind of cool, kind of creepy

I've always loved mixed media shadow boxes and I definitely have a warped sense of the world so these appeal to me in a sort of I'm not sure if I'd really want them in my house, but I want to think about it......

I'm not quite sure what to do with a shadow box entitled the aborted garden, nor am I sure of the politics behind it (but there are 28 items currently tagged "abortion")


More cool, but also slightly creepy is this medical shadow box of miscelania pertaining to bones



And then there are the purely pretty ones, but then I think it may be a little toooo Americana for my actual tastes


And then there's this one which is less Americana, but still may not entirely be totally me (can I get any more equivocating?).

Beautiful domesticity

I know that my occasional overly romanticized ideas about 1950s are both mythical and currently trendy, but I've had a thing for beautiful nested mixing bowls for quite a while.

And there's something about crisp blue and matte white that fits that same design aesthetic, it's like prettier vintage pyrex.

More displays

I seem to be stuck on displays, either things to display or modes of doing so. Back in NY, in a box somewhere I have a beautiful wood necklace and earring rack, but in LA..... no such thing :) And thinking toward the future and my mythical house with endless possibilities, a handmade cork display case could be interesting-- as well as connect to my other passion of adornment.


It also seems like I'm continuing to think about a mythical beach house with exposed wood and glass.

More vintage glass longings

For bell jars and antique hour glasses... but I haven't found any indie makers, just the drool provoking, check book draining anthropology.... I think I'm mentally furnishing my house in the Hamptons or Mendocino...

And for Ms. 'Melia

a dainty dog collar that she hopefully won't eat

This is just preeeettttyyyyyy

and it's called the Ocean Bowl

Holly Homemaker Here I Come

I have all these fantasies about what I will do when I get back to the States, usually involving kinds of cooking projects I can't do here... including I have this idea about making my own butter. And that of course led me to thinking about what to put it in, and that's how I found beautiful French Butter dishes like this one

Can I pull off this kind of adornment?

I'm thinking about these 1940s-esque feather headbands, they seem a little trendy now and I'm weighing whether they will be flattering and stand the test of time within the rest of my wardrobe

Perhaps something slightly subtle



Or big and wide but matching my hair

OR...... what I'm really craving are big bold ones like this one



or this one

I'm craving and seriously considering buying some assortment of

Apothecary Jars-- great for bulk items for the kitchen, bathroom, in the mythical totally organized house I do not yet have and also fits my medical apparatus obsessession

A gorgeous and unique vintage jar

A smokey yellow one


Or this Amber one


Or plain clear glass



or just old bottles

A cool retro kitchen timer

Retro double timer in mint, $16 at Uncommon Goods